Students
Congrats to Our May 2021 Graduates!
This semester, we celebrate the NC State graduation of 49 members of the Center for Geospatial Analytics community. Congratulations to all of our doctoral, professional master’s and graduate certificate students on their perseverance and success!
Josh Randall Awarded Energy Data Analytics Ph.D. Fellowship
Ph.D. student Josh Randall was recently named one of seven 2021 fellows by the Duke University Energy Initiative. His fellowship research will apply spatial analysis to support equitable energy access.
Where There’s Smoke: Reducing Downwind Impacts of Prescribed Burns
New research by Geospatial Analytics Ph.D. student Kate Jones will use geospatial modeling and interactive data visualization to help fire managers consider the vulnerability of communities downwind of prescribed burns.
Brit Laginhas Wins 2021 ESA George Mercer Award
Geospatial Analytics Ph.D. student Brit Laginhas and her coauthors won the Ecological Society of America’s 2021 award for an outstanding, recently published, ecological research paper by young scientists.
Alex Reinwald Is NC State’s 2021 Esri Innovation Program Student of the Year
NC State joined a select group of universities worldwide when it became part of the Esri Innovation Program in 2017. Congratulations to our 2021 EIP Student of the Year: Fall 2020 MGIST graduate Alex Reinwald!
Helping Clean Energy Move Forward
Geospatial Analytics Ph.D. student Alex Yoshizumi is combining passions for geography, planning and sustainability to help map North Carolina’s energy future.
Geospatial Analytics Ph.D. Students Land Prestigious Funding Awards
Congratulations to our students who recently won grants and fellowships from NSF, NASA, The Nature Conservancy, the Joint Fire Science Program and NC Sea Grant-NC Space Grant!
Students Showcase Research at Fourth Annual Graduate Research Symposium
Congratulations to Geospatial Analytics Ph.D. students Vini Perin and Megan Coffer, two poster competition winners at the College of Natural Resources' virtual Fourth Annual Graduate Research Symposium.
Out of This World: The Future of Satellite Imagery
After successfully defending her Geospatial Analytics Ph.D. earlier in March, Megan Coffer served as an expert panelist for a POLITICO discussion on the privacy implications of increasingly high-resolution imagery.
Celebrating Our Community: Second Annual CGA Awards
At its virtual Awards Ceremony on March 4, the Center for Geospatial Analytics honored students, faculty and staff for their achievements and presented the CGA Awards.